The school selection and placement process for candidates of the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) officially begins today, Tuesday, May 27, and will end on Friday, June 6.
Announcing the commencement of the exercise at a news conference on the new guidelines for selection of schools for BECE candidates ahead of this year's BECE examination, Coordinator of the Free SHS (FSHS) Secretariat, Sena Okity-Duah, revealed that teams from the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Service and the Free SHS Secretariat will be deployed across the country to conduct sensitisation activities aimed at guiding candidates, parents, and school authorities on the new selection procedures.
Candidates are required to select seven schools with five being main and two as alternative. "Candidates are required to select seven schools in total, five main choices and two alternatives and these must be done in order of preference," she said.
Of the five main schools selected, at least three must be boarding schools while the remaining two should be day schools.
